Seeing that Zhang Yaowen was about to hunt down Shen Qi, the face of the soul chasing old ghost was a little solemn, and he looked at the compass that gradually stopped shaking on the table, and felt very surprised in his heart. Because in the past, no matter who he calculated, the compass did not shake.

"Zhang County Order, the old man left first, you avenge Ling Lang, but be careful. ”

The old ghost chasing souls is a person who is both good and evil, and he has something to say, and he is reluctant to pick and choose.

"Okay, thank you Mr. Old Ghost, this is a hundred taels of silver tickets, please smile. ”

Zhang Yaowen was already desperately determined to ignore his hints.

After chasing the old ghost left, Zhang Yaowen immediately summoned all the officials in the county government. Because the population of Anxi County is not large, all the official servants together do not exceed 100 people, but the county seat of the Qing Dynasty generally has additional hired officials, called "white servants" or "helpers", which is probably equivalent to the current urban management or auxiliary police and the like, so the entire Anxi County has a total of hundreds of formal and additional servants, and the larger county often has thousands of servants.

Zhang Yaowen selected 200 strong and healthy officials to help him, but in addition to him, the county order, only Wang Huairui, the master, had pen power, and even the two deputy county magistrates of the county and the chief bookkeeper failed to practice pen power.

He thought about it for a while, and immediately asked his subordinates to find Wang Huairui, hoping that he could go with him to hunt down Shen Qi.

When Wang Huairui learned the news and rushed over, he was a little hesitant. First of all, he admires Shen Qi very much and is unwilling to force him to a dead end, plus he knows that Shen Qi's pen power is strong, and the two of them may not be able to win together.

"Master, that Shen Qi has the strength of the second stage of pen power, the villain personally competed with him, but found that he didn't even have half of his pen power. ”

In the hall, the candlelight flickered, Wang Huairui bowed his head and bent over, hoping that Zhang Yaowen on the opposite side would not pull himself into the water, and more importantly, his master was just a part-time worker hired by the county to share the administrative affairs in the ya, and he really didn't want to work for him.

This Zhang Yaowen was of course furious when he saw that he dared to bargain with him, but he couldn't help Wang Huairui now, so he couldn't tear his face with him. In fact, most county governments with busy administrative affairs will hire ten masters, and a small county like Anxi County also employs three, but because the other two masters make more money than his county order, they were laid off not long ago.

"Master Wang, don't worry, this county will not let you encounter danger, you just need to help at a critical moment. ”

Zhang Yaowen forcibly suppressed his anger and persuaded him to go with him, but in the end, Wang Huairui couldn't refuse, so he reluctantly agreed.

At this moment, the sky was completely dark, Zhang Yaowen handed over the affairs of the county government to the county and the chief secretary to manage together, and set off with Wang Huairui and two hundred officials. The group carried lanterns and torches into the forest where the Batong River was located, and the large knives carried by the officials kept making collision sounds.

Shen Qi in the dark was almost to the upper reaches of the Batong River, he held the brush and paper tightly along the way, worried about encountering the attack of fierce beasts, fortunately, his eyesight is excellent now, and his perception is extremely keen, and he will know in advance if there is danger.

"Lord River God, Brother Qi is not here, I will give you a pillar of incense, I hope you will bless us to be able to turn evil into good fortune. ”

In the temple by the Batong River, Zou Manshan, who had picked some wild vegetables for her stomach, lit three incense sticks and respectfully bowed to the water mill three times, and behind her was a pile of burning firewood, shaking like a giant beast with teeth and claws.

When Zou Manshan finished worshipping, a few wisps of white incense floated out of the incense in her hand, but she was different from Shen Qi and couldn't detect it.

A faint divine light lit up on the idol that had successfully absorbed the power of incense and wishing, and although the water mill inside was sleeping, he would know if there was any movement outside.

Time passed slowly, and Shen Qi, who was about to go upstream, suddenly felt a chill in his body, and he felt a faint murderous aura approaching.

This place was closer to the temple where Zou Manshan was, and he thought about it for a while and boldly walked back. This is to prevent Zou Manshan from being in danger.

Around the dark forest, he could hear the chirping of insects and beasts, Shen Qi passed quickly, and after crossing a lush grass, he suddenly saw a dense group of fires appearing between the trees in front of him, and there were one or two hundred of them.

Looking at this posture, it is estimated that Zhang Yaowen came to him, I don't know how he knew that he was here.

Shen Qi was definitely not told by Li Guangdi, and guessed in his heart that the county government had used some sideways methods to confirm his location.

"Deep mountains and old forests, you dare to come!"

There was no time to think about how Zhang Yaowen knew that he was here, Shen Qi grabbed the pen and paper, and suddenly took the initiative to rush over and burst into a shout, and the sudden sound frightened the two hundred officials into a panic.

Fortunately, Zhang Yaowen and Wang Huairui, who were in the lead, did not panic, they followed the sound and saw a teenager wearing a coarse cloth robe and braided hair appeared in the darkness ahead.

"You are Shen Qi?"

Zhang Yaowen is not sluggish, thinking that this person should be the person he wants to hunt down, seeing that he is young, he didn't expect to have the second paragraph of pen power. If there is no inextricable mortal enmity between them, Zhang County Ling will definitely take care of him, after all, there is a ghost talent in a county who has practiced the second stage of pen power, which is a rare thing than Li Guangdi, a prodigy, or Shen Qi will rely on his extraordinary pen power in the future, and the official position will be very good, which will also be extremely beneficial to Zhang Yaowen's career.

"It's true, I am Shen Qi who killed Zhang Yuan, you have dispatched so many servants for me alone, and you are really not afraid of working hard and losing money. ”

Shen Qi held a blank paper in one hand and a brush in the other, and there were some spare papers and brushes on him.

"Hmph, don't think that being a ghost is qualified to empty your eyes, it's not difficult for this county to kill you now. ”

Zhang Yaowen walked from Wang Huairui's side to Shen Qi's approach, and the other officials surrounded them with lanterns and torches.

Looking at this formation, Shen Qi knew that it was impossible for him to run, he stopped talking nonsense, and the brush in his hand wrote quickly between the white paper on the palm of his other hand, and suddenly there was a dazzling pen power essence radiating out.

Zhang Yaowen and the others were taken aback, and some officials couldn't help but cover their eyes with their hands to avoid the stimulation of the pen's strength, and then at this moment, Shen Qi, who was distracted by Zhang Yaowen, shook the big hand of the pen, and the white paper with wild scribble writing flew out, like a wall pressing on Zhang Yaowen's face.

Seeing that he was about to defeat Zhang Yaowen in one fell swoop, the unfazed county magistrate suddenly waved his arm, and in his hand he was already holding a well-made large brush, and the tip of the pen full of ink was punched out, and it landed on the back of the white paper.

"Pounds!"

Suddenly, the light in the seemingly weak black brush bristles bloomed, and an equally dazzling ball of pen power essence radiated out, hitting the back of the white paper, with a loud noise.

In this way, on both sides of a thin white paper, two slightly different pieces of pen power confront each other, but the white paper is not damaged at all.

At this time, Wang Huairui was hiding behind and was dumbfounded, he saw that Zhang Yaowen was just holding a pen on the back of the white paper, and had not yet started writing, but it was this seemingly simple act of putting down the pen that actually resisted the strong pen power on the front of the white paper.

The reason why Zhang Yaowen burst out with such a strong pen power is not because of his own ability, but because of the well-made large brush in his hand. This pen was given by the imperial court, specifically for the judgment and approval of the case in the public court, and the pen power conveyed from his pen is extremely tenacious.

However, just when Wang Huairui was surprised, his eyes passed through the power of the pen, and he saw the positive handwriting on the back of the white paper, although he did not see it clearly, but it was clear that it was just a word, not a line of words. The pen power in this word is naturally much weaker, which means that Shen Qi has not done his best.

After holding up like this for a while, seeing that Zhang Yaowen relied on the office pen given by the imperial court to block his Shen Qi from fluttering, his face full of sharpness was illuminated by the essence of the pen, and a monstrous murderous aura surged out of his terrifying eyes.

"Boom!"

In an instant, Shen Qi, who was close, raised his hand and put down the pen, and continued to write wildly on the front of the white paper where only one word was written, and the ink like a dragon and snake appeared in the pen, which was exactly the sentence "The official is not right, and the father is not strict".

The word "for" at the front has consumed some pen power, and it already looks a little dim.

"Boom!"

With the completion of the wild grass that Shen Qi had patched, the pen power on the front of the white paper skyrocketed, and the strong impact shook the bodies of many officials around, and no one had ever seen such a fierce pen power confrontation.

That Zhang Yaowen was extremely struggling at the moment, and the brush in his hand was pressed by the pen power on the front of the white paper, but he gritted his teeth, and the large brush finally twisted rapidly from the place where the pen fell, and what appeared in one stroke was two extremely simple black characters in Song style, which was "Dare"!

is worthy of being an official, this is a set of official words, but I have to say that these two words are not weak at all, and there is also a strong pen power between the strokes, which shook the ground under the white paper and shook again and again.

"Bang!"

Shen Qi and Zhang Yaowen fought so-for-tat for pen power, the pen power essence on the front and back of the white paper was like two colliding hills, and it exploded in a few breaths, and countless dazzling pen power essences were scattered with a bang, and as soon as they touched the surrounding trees, they were ignited with a bang, and a fire burned quickly.

Looking at the burning trees around them, Shen Qi and Zhang Yaowen didn't bother to pay attention to it, but Wang Huairui, who was watching the excitement, hurriedly commanded two hundred officials to cut down branches to extinguish the fire and prevent the fire from spreading.

In the explosion of Shen Qi, a shallow crack appeared on the brush shaft in his hand, which was transmitted back to the shock wave on his body through the power of the pen, and his eyes were staring at the white paper that was still suspended in the air, and there was a faint essence of pen power between the handwriting.